Saturday, February 16, 2008
Three Issues
Our three great economic problems are fixing Social Security, fixing Medicare and reducing the public debt. If these matters are not addressed, our nation will soon be in a financial crisis. Yet none of our candidates for president are discussing these matters or proposing any solutions. The reason: for each the fix is increasing taxes and/or drastically reducing expenditures. At the present time no one is going to get elected that favors a tax increase or that proposes the elimination of programs that substantially reduce expenditures. The only way these problems are going to get resolved is by educating the public as to the dire necessity to make these changes, and for most people it would involve a substantial reduction in the standarad of living.
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I absolutely agree. We have to cut the waste, but there is another answer for more income: taxing churches. Like everything else, originally it was a good idea not to tax them, but many churches and "non profits" today are more like businesses or country clubs with big over-the-top facilities for their members. It would be intersting to see how charitable and religious everyone would be if the churches were taxed like everything else.
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